Originally Posted by
JetDoc
United's first 777's first went into service in 1994. 24 years and still going strong. Hell, some of their 75's are pushing 30. It's not the age of the plane but the quality of the maintenance. Sadly our guys are overworked, underpaid and quite literally, not given the tools they need to do the job.
It’s also number of cycles. Those long haul planes do many less cycles in the same time period due to the nature of the flying.